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BrainWalker: I loved your intros. We want all of them on Kestra/Bitworld/Janeway. Please contact me if you still have your Amiga disks 🙂
Anyway, that split between Skid Row and The Company, This is both true and simplification. True to some extent, after some time. Simplification because it’s a much more complicated story, involving many people with their own ambitions, and a wider reorganization of this part of the scene involving the birth of Angels, the nearly simultaneous collapses of Paranoimia and Vision Factory, etc.Â
So Skid Row was mostly born from the German side of Paranoimia, minus Jürgen who made a tentative appearance in Vision Factory along with those who finally created Angels. For SR this meant basically FFC, ex-members of WoW who were later in Paranoimia such as Metallica and Eurosoft, Vision Factory suppliers (hi Subzero!) and other well-known efficient guys, also in the U.S, Then Skid Row became more or less a straight story, so let’s put it aside.
Angels was engineered on its side to be merged with the most active members of Dragons, a French group – let’s call it the frog who believed it was as big as the beef. In the end we have to recognize that the merger was a success, and that ex-members of Dragons clearly outperformed against all expectations. Of course they had to conclude associations with Genesis and Defjam, because they couldn’t reach out the same level as Paradox and Skid Row.Â
As no sane people could have worked for a long time with such a lamer as The White Tiger, ex-members of Dragons (say, Mr Video, Corsair, Foxy) left for Classic to meet another infamous guy (Zelnik) and work with their skillful cracker Ringo Star, then they joined Skid Row where they had bigger sharks around them. They ended creating Sprint, then The Company. This coincided with Jürgen’s reappearance at the head of a reborn Paranoimia zombi towards the end of 1990, The Company was born in January 1991, roughly six months after Skid Row, The Company was more a mix of several people including ex-Classic, ex-Angels, ex-Horizon, ex-Vision Factory members – only a few of whom were in Paranoimia. The split buzz takes into account the somewhat presence of Jürgen in the equation.
So basically Paranoimia split into Skid Row and Angels. Only later came The Company.